List of stratigraphic units with dinosaur trace fossils

This is a list of stratigraphic units dinosaur trace fossils have been recovered from. Although Dinosauria is a clade which includes the descendant taxon Aves (modern birds), this article covers only stratigraphic units containing Mesozoic forms. Units listed are all either formation rank or higher (e.g. group).

Coprolites

Name Age Country Province/State Description

Aguja Formation[1]

Campanian[1]

Chihuahua
Texas

Blesa Formation[3]

Early Cretaceous Teruel

Cerroa del Pueblo Formation[4]

Late Cretaceous Coahuila

Dinosaur Park Formation[5]

Late Campanian[5]

Alberta

Frenchman Formation[6]

Late Maastrichtian[6]

Saskatchewan

Portland Formation[7]

Pliensbachian to Toarcian[7]

Connecticut
Massachusetts

Sânpetru Formation[8]

Late Maastrichtian[8]

Brasov județ

Wealden Group[4]

Early Cretaceous England

Whitemud Formation[4]

Maastrichtian Alberta

Eggs or nests

Name Age Country Province/State Description

Allen Formation[9]

Middle Campanian[9]

Mendoza
Neuquén
Río Negro

Allison Formation[10]

Alberta

Anacleto Formation

Mendoza
Neuquén
Río Negro
Buenos Aires

Angostura Colorada Formation[11]

    Ankarafantsika Formation[12]

    Mahajanga

    Aréen Formation[13]

    Late Cretaceous Huesca

    Asencio Formation[14]

      Bagua Formation[15]

        Bajo de la Carpa Formation

        Neuquén
        Río Negro

        Barun Goyot Formation[16]

        Middle Campanian (?)[16]

        Ömnögovi Province has a few alternate spellings

        Bayan Shireh Formation[17]

        Cenomanian to Santonian[17]

        has many alternate spellings

        Blesa Formation[3]

        Early Cretaceous Teruel
        La Rioja

        Calizus de Lychnus Formation[18]

          Camadas de Alcobaça[19]

          Kimmeridgian[19]

          Camadas de Guimarota[20]

          Late Jurassic

          Camadas de Montejunto[21]

          Camarillas Formation[4]

          Teruel
          La Rioja

          Castellar Formation[4]

          Teruel
          La Rioja

          Cedar Mountain Formation[22]

          Barremian to basal Cenomanian

          Utah

          Colorado Formation[23]

          Dakota Formation[24]

          Nebraska

          Dinosaur Park Formation[5]

          Late Campanian[5]

          Alberta

          Djadochta Formation[25]

          Middle Campanian[25]

          has many alternate spellings

          Doshuul Formation[26]

            El Gallo Formation[4]

            Baja California

            Fruitland Formation[4]

            Colorado
            New Mexico

            Gaogou Formation[4]

            Henan

            Gres d'Alet Formation[4]

              Hasandong Formation[4]

              Ialovachsk Formation[4]

                Intertrappean Beds[4]

                Andhra Pradesh

                Iren Dabasu Formation[27]

                ?Campanian[27]

                Inner Mongolia

                Jindong Formation[4]

                Zhejiang

                Kaiparowits Formation[28]

                Late Campanian[28]

                Utah

                Kallanakurichi Formation[4]

                Tamil Nadu

                Khodzhaosmansk Formation[4]

                Kitadani Formation[29]

                Aptian to Albian[29]

                Chūbu-chihō

                Laguna Colorada Formation[30]

                ?Norian[30]

                Santa Cruz

                Lameta Formation[31]

                Gujarat
                Madhya Pradesh
                Maharashtra

                Los Alamitos Formation[4]

                Río Negro Province

                Los Blanquitos Formation[4]

                Salta

                Manrakskaya Svita[4]

                  Marilia Formation[4]

                  Minas Gerais

                  Marnes rouges de Roquelongue Formation[4]

                  Aude

                  Marnes Rouges Inferieures Formation[4]

                  Aude

                  Majiacun Formation

                    Meeteetse Formation[4]

                    Wyoming

                    Mercedes Formation[4]

                    Mooreville Chalk Formation[32]

                    Early Maastrichtian[32]

                    Alabama
                    Mississippi

                    Morrison Formation[33]

                    Time Colorado
                    Wyoming

                    Nanchao Formation[4]

                    Henan

                    Nichkesaisk Formation[4]

                      Oxford Clay[34]

                      Callovian[34]

                      England

                      Patcham Formation[4]

                      England

                      Purbeck Beds[35]

                      Berriasian[35]

                      England

                      Quantou Formation[4]

                      Jilin

                      Quxian Formation[4]

                      Sichuan

                      Rio Colorado Formation[4]

                      Neuquén
                      Río Negro Province

                      Sainshand Svita[4]

                      Dornogovi Province

                      St. Mary River Formation[4]

                      Alberta

                      Sangping Formation[4]

                      Henan

                      Seonso Conglomerate Formation[4]

                      Shanyang Formation[4]

                      Shaanxi

                      Sigou Formation[4]

                      Sichuan

                      Solnhofen limestone[36]

                      Kimmeridgian[36]

                      Bavaria

                      Stonesfield Slate[4]

                      England

                      Subashi Formation[4]

                      Xinjiang

                      Takli Formation[4]

                      Tangshang Formation[4]

                      Hebei

                      Tendaguru Formation[37]

                      Kimmeridgian[37]

                      Thomas Fork Formation[4]

                      Idaho

                      Tremp Formation[4]

                      Huesca Many in situ nesting sites of sauropods, designated UNESCO Global Geopark in 2018

                      Two Medicine Formation[38]

                      ?Late Santonian to Late Campanian[38]

                      Montana

                      Villalba de la Sierra Formation[4]

                        Vilquechico Formation[4]

                        Wahweap Formation[4]

                        Arizona
                        Utah

                        Wangshi Group[4]

                        Shandong

                        Wayan Formation[4]

                        Idaho

                        Wessex Formation[39]

                        Barremian[39]

                        England

                        Willow Creek Formation[4]

                        Alberta

                        Yixian Formation[40]

                        Barremian[40]

                        Liaoning

                        Yuanpu Formation[4]

                        Guangdong

                        Zhaoyin Formation[4]

                          Zoumagang Formation[4]

                          Henan

                          Tracks

                          See also

                          • List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations

                          Sources

                          • Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. 861 pp; ISBN 0-520-24209-2.

                          References

                          1. "Late Cretaceous; North America; Texas; Aguja Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pp. 581-582.
                          2. "Late Cretaceous; North America; Estado de Chihuahua, Mexico; Aguja Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 588.
                          3. "Blesa Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 561.
                          4. "Example Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004).
                          5. "Dinosaur Park Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 576-78.
                          6. "Frenchman Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 578.
                          7. "Portland Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 532.
                          8. "Sânpetru Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 592-593.
                          9. "Late Cretaceous; South America; Provincia de Río Negro, Argentina; Allen Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 604.
                          10. "Allison Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 577.
                          11. "Angostura Colorada Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 603.
                          12. "Ankarafantsika Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 605.
                          13. "Aréen Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 591.
                          14. "Asencio Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 601.
                          15. "Bagua Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 600.
                          16. "Barun Goyot Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 595-597.
                          17. "Bayan Shireh Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 596-597.
                          18. "Calizus de Lychnus Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 591.
                          19. "Camadas de Alcobaça." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 548-549.
                          20. "Camadas de Guimarota." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 548.
                          21. "Camadas de Montejunto." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 548.
                          22. "Cedar Mountain Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 554, 579.
                          23. "Colorado Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 604.
                          24. "Dakota Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 554, 579.
                          25. "Djadochta Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 596-98.
                          26. "Doshuul Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 564.
                          27. "Iren Dabasu Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 598.
                          28. "Kaiparowits Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 579-80.
                          29. "Kitadani Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 570.
                          30. "Laguna Colorada Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 528.
                          31. "Lameta Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 595.
                          32. "Mooreville Chalk Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 587.
                          33. "Morrison Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 543-545.
                          34. "Oxford Clay Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 539-540.
                          35. "Purbeck Beds Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 558.
                          36. "Solnhofen Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 549.
                          37. "Tendaguru Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 552.
                          38. "Two Medicine Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 582-583.
                          39. "Wessex Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 558-559.
                          40. "Yixian Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 566-567.
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